Kuomintang Taipei City Councilor Ying Xiaowei was interviewed yesterday when it was shockingly reported that she was involved in holding a dinner party to bribe elections.

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[Reporter Qian Lizhong/Taipei Report] Ying Xiaowei, a Kuomintang Taipei city councilor who has been re-elected for several terms, was shocked yesterday that she was involved in holding a dinner party to bribe elections. As a result, she was searched by the Taipei City Investigation Division of the Investigation Bureau under the command of the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office and charged with violating the law. Interview on the identity of the defendant for the crime of election bribery in the Public Official Election and Recall Act.

When Ying Xiaowei was brought to the Beijing Procuratorate by the investigator, she complained to the media: "Please believe in me, voters will never break the law."

The investigation was reported that in October this year, Ying Xiaowei and Yang Huazhong, the mayor of Huajiang District, Wanhua District, Beishi, who was running for re-election, held a dinner together at the Tingzhou branch of Xindongnan Seafood Restaurant, a well-known seafood restaurant in Beishi. The price of the table was about 9,000 yuan. Dozens of voters were invited to attend, including the "bribery mines" personnel deployed by the city mediation office to report election bribery.